Furzegood pumping station, Marldon

Spill evidence · Friends of the Dart

Furzegood pumping station, Marldon

Pumping station overflow · SBB00481 · feeds COMPTON AND MARLDON STW
Wet weather

The discharge

Spill day
Saturday, 4 June 2022
Started
4 Jun 2022, 09:23
Ended
4 Jun 2022, 11:37
Duration
2 hours 14 minutes
Receiving water
Hems - Lower
Parish
Marldon

Rainfall evidence

Daily rainfall at the matched gauge (Torbay Compton) for the spill day and the days before. A spill is dry when every day in the window is ≤ 0.25 mm.

1-day window: Wet weather3-day window: Wet weather4-day window: Wet weather
DateRainfall
04/06/2022 (spill day)4.3 mmrain
03/06/20222.6 mmrain
02/06/20220 mmdry
01/06/20220 mmdry
31/05/20220 mmdry

River flow that day: 3.15 m³/s. Verify at the EA rainfall station.

Gauge proximity

Outlet (red) vs matched rain gauge (blue), 2.6 km apart. Closer means the rainfall reading is more representative of the overflow.

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Severity & context

Bathing water
Not Applicable
Shellfish water
Dart
Ahead of the works
Unknown (no works overflow data)
EA annual return (2022)
21 counted spills · 17 h total
Monitor uptime (2022)
100% operational
Method & provenance. Dry/wet classification is decided by rainfall at the nearest EA gauge — ≤ 0.25 mm on the spill day and each preceding day of the window (how we classify). Spill data: Environment Agency EDM (outlet SBB00481). Rainfall: EA Hydrology gauge e7e2f7d4-f497-4adc-b077-c20bc2dcedfa. A dry spill is precautionary evidence of a likely fault, not proof of an offence — we test the rainfall, not the works' flow. Generated by River Hub.